The Alpha Didn’t Repent Until I Was Gone Chapter 04
I looked at the bottle and felt like my heart was being carved open.
Because it was mine.
I’d made that medicine for Julian after hearing he came back from the North.
Yes, it had a tiny bit of wolfsbane in it.
But only a trace.
One herb among dozens.
To make it, I traded with a pack in the Rocky Mountains for three rare flowers.
That medicine was supposed to heal the old silver poison left in his body from a silver arrow wound he got
in the North.
But on the very day I finished it, he showed up with a pregnancy-ending potion and told me to give up my own
child.
That was the day my heart went cold for good.
Even then, I hid the medicine instead of throwing it away.
Some stupid part of me still hoped.
If he showed even a little regret, if he just said I’m sorry, I’d forgive him.
He never did.
And now that bottle was being used as proof that I tried to kill my sister.
“That was medicine for your old injury,” I said hoarsely.
Julian laughed.
Cold, cruel, and full of contempt.
Then he walked up, grabbed me by the throat, and yanked me straight out of the snow.
“You’re still making excuses? Olivia Kessick, how can your heart be this rotten?”
I was choking.
I stopped fighting back.
And in that dizzy blur, I remembered another snowy day.
I was six.
Julian was twelve.
He lifted me high into the air under a sky full of snow and swore to the Moon Goddess, “No one gets to bully
my little sister.”
That voice from the past blended into the one in front of me until I couldn’t tell them apart.
Then Sebastian came out too.
For one stupid second, I thought he came to save me.
Instead, I heard him say, loud and cold,
“I, Sebastian, Alpha of the Black Moon Pack, hereby banish you.”
“You leave in two days. If you’re found inside our borders after sundown, you’ll be treated as a hostile
intruder.”
Julian let out a cold laugh.
Then he let me go.
I crashed back into the snow.
Banishment was a death sentence for a weak lone wolf.
That was enough for them.
That was the revenge they wanted.
Snow kept falling until everything in front of me blurred white.
I didn’t look at either of them again.
Two days.
That was all I had left.
When the punishment ended, my frozen body got thrown back into my room.
Only Vera was still there to care for me.
Everything that once belonged to me in the pack had been taken away.
No fire. No heat. Barely any candles.
Winter soaked into every corner of the room.
These two days had wrecked my body for good.
Half-awake, I kept hearing Vera crying outside the door.
“Please, let me out! Lady Olivia is dying! Please, have mercy. Get her a healer!”
The guards didn’t move.
“The Alpha gave the order. Olivia has been exiled. She gets nothing from the pack anymore.”
The next time I forced my eyes open, the person holding water by my bed wasn’t Vera.
It was a maid I didn’t know.
My voice came out cracked.
“Where… is Vera?”
The maid dropped to her knees, shaking.
“She rushed the guards last night to get you a healer. They drew a silver blade to stop her…”
“She hit her neck on it.”
“She died on the spot.”
I didn’t hear anything after that.
I just cried.
Quietly.
Endlessly.